Riel et al v. Navient Solutions Inc

Filing 23

ORDER signed by Judge J.P. Stadtmueller on 4/17/2017 GRANTING 21 Defendant's Motion to Amend Trial Scheduling Order. Court's 12/6/2016 Trial Scheduling Order (Docket #14) AMENDED so that dispositive motions due by 5/11/2017. Responses to such motions due by 6/1/2017 and replies due by 6/8/2017. No further extensions will be granted. (cc: all counsel) (jm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
DANNEL RIEL and CHERIE
BINGENHEIMER,
Plaintiffs,

Case No. 16-CV-1191-JPS

v.
NAVIENT SOLUTIONS LLC,

ORDER
Defendant.
On December 6, 2017, the Court issued its trial scheduling order in this
matter, setting the dispositive motion deadline for May 1, 2017. (Docket #14).
On January 17, 2017, the Court addressed Defendant’s motion to dismiss,
granting it in part. (Docket #16). On April 14, 2017, Defendant filed a motion
to extend the dispositive motion deadline for three weeks. (Docket #21). The
most salient portion of the motion reads: “[t]he parties exchanged Rule 26(a)
disclosures in November 2016. . . . However, the parties did not resume
discovery until after the Court issued its order on [Defendant’s] motion to
dismiss in light of the broad scope of that motion.” Id. at 2. Defendant’s
motion further states that it did not issue written discovery requests until two
months after the Court’s order on the motion to dismiss. Id.
The Court is dismayed by the parties’ neglect of this litigation. Their
decision to adopt a self-imposed stay of the discovery process was not
supported by any order or suggestion from the Court. Defendant, which now
seeks a substantial extension of the dispositive motion deadline, was also
overly dilatory in waiting so long to initiate discovery. Nevertheless, the
Court will grant a limited extension of that deadline, at the expense of a
shortened briefing schedule. The dispositive motion deadline shall be re-set

to May 11, 2017. Responses to such motions shall be due on or before June
1, 2017, and replies must be filed by June 8, 2017. No further extensions of
time will be considered in this matter for any reason.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that Defendant’s motion to amend the trial
scheduling order (Docket #21) be and the same is hereby GRANTED;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the dispositive motion deadline of
the December 6, 2016 trial scheduling order (Docket #14) shall be amended
to May 11, 2017; and
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that briefing on dispositive motions, if
any are filed, shall proceed in accordance with the terms of this Order.
Dated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this 17th day of April, 2017.
BY THE COURT:

J.P. Stadtmueller
U.S. District Judge

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